A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty, fury and great humanity. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in Orwell's later works and novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain.
Book Details
Format
paperback
ISBN-10
0140182381
ISBN-13
9780140182385
Publication Date
Nov 1989
Item Weight
0.48 pounds
Length
7.80 inch
Width
5.04 inch
Height
0.59 inch
First Sentence
THE FIRST SOUND in the mornings was the clumping of the mill-girls' clogs down the cobbled street.
George Orwell, originally born as Eric Arthur Blair, was an English novelist and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense, revolutionary opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language and a belief in democratic socialism. ([Source][1].)
[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
